It’s grand opening weekend for the all-new Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus. But who was the “Burke” behind the name of this august institution?

Learn about Washington's distant past through a special exhibit, "Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway," at Seattle's Burke Museum. Then take a road trip to find fossils "in the wild" around the Pacific ...

The Burke Museum is moving its collection, including seldom-seen objects, to its new $99 million home, which is scheduled to open in the fall.

Some items, like the museum's 8,000 baskets, will spend more than a year “decompressing” before they are put on display. “A lot of baskets were nested inside of other baskets,” Winslow ...

The new Burke, she says, is “modernized” and “relevant.” She adds that the new Burke has put the city on the national radar, second perhaps only to the famous American Museum of Natural History in New ...

That puts the Burke Museum’s set of fossils among the world’s top 25 T. rex finds, Wilson said. He told reporters that the museum’s T. rex skull will be the only one to go on public display ...